[kaitimaee]

I'm 15 years old and been having these problems since I was 11 years old. I pull my hair out of the back of my head. I use to in the front, but I solved that with a hair band but it won't cover the back of my head. My OCD isn't as bad as it was when I was little but still almost as bad. When I wake up, I have to check my phone. When at my school locker, when I close it, I have to turn the dial 3 times and go to open it 3 times. I can't walk away without doing that. My hand-writing HAS to be neat or I'll have to start over all over again. My hair has to be perfect or I'll freak out, same with make-up and clothes and stuff. I have to look good even if I'm not trying to impress anyone. I hate the way pens write, I can't write with them. I have to do everything the right way, as instructed. Once I start something, I must finish it. I can't touch anything that has a rough texture (sand-paper for example). When I think of something happening, I feel like it's going to happen in real life and that thought will be stuck in my head all day and distracts me. Same with images and stuff like that. If something pops in my head like "Tell "whomever" to do this." I actually have to do it. My OCD is kinda hard to explain but I have many symptoms of it. I'm not a clean freak, but a totally organizing freak.
I go to Therapy for Trichotillomania and OCD and Anxiety. They think these things are triggered by the Brain Surgery I had when I was 7. I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. But we still are yet to figure out why I'm like this.

Are you just like me?

[mshudson32]

Originally Posted by kaitimaee

I'm 15 years old and been having these problems since I was 11 years old. I pull my hair out of the back of my head. I use to in the front, but I solved that with a hair band but it won't cover the back of my head. My OCD isn't as bad as it was when I was little but still almost as bad. When I wake up, I have to check my phone. When at my school locker, when I close it, I have to turn the dial 3 times and go to open it 3 times. I can't walk away without doing that. My hand-writing HAS to be neat or I'll have to start over all over again. My hair has to be perfect or I'll freak out, same with make-up and clothes and stuff. I have to look good even if I'm not trying to impress anyone. I hate the way pens write, I can't write with them. I have to do everything the right way, as instructed. Once I start something, I must finish it. I can't touch anything that has a rough texture (sand-paper for example). When I think of something happening, I feel like it's going to happen in real life and that thought will be stuck in my head all day and distracts me. Same with images and stuff like that. If something pops in my head like "Tell "whomever" to do this." I actually have to do it. My OCD is kinda hard to explain but I have many symptoms of it. I'm not a clean freak, but a totally organizing freak.
I go to Therapy for Trichotillomania and OCD and Anxiety. They think these things are triggered by the Brain Surgery I had when I was 7. I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. But we still are yet to figure out why I'm like this.

Are you just like me?

i am and i have been for a while so is there any treatment

[Pup]

Yes, there is. CBT is commonly used, as well as some medications, and therapy. Look up on google treatment for OCD/Trichotillomania.

[true1]

i used to have trichotillomania really bad, but i am calming down. whenever i have an impulse, i feel my body and get in touch with the present moment

[VickiesPath]

I met a new friend in group therapy and her trich is so advanced that she wears a wig. It is a very good wig but I spotted it pretty quickly (I also wear wigs. I don't have Trich but am just lazy!) I had not met someone with it before. She is 29 and has a degree to teach kindergarten. She is also OCD and bipolar. It is early in her treatment so I see her struggle on a daily basis. She, too, goes to CBT therapy. Right now, she is trying to get on disability so her life is really upside down but she manages with meds and treatment. I know for a fact that she did not have a brain injury or surgery and she has no obvious cause for what started it in her.

So, yes, there are many who have this illness.